i LOVE Space #1 [ You Never Know What You'll Find ]
You Never Know What You'll Find
A series on SPACE relative topics, because I love it!
I can always look to space when I want a perspective check. Whether it is finite or infinite, it never limits my imagination. I can always count on it to leave me nonplus when envisaging its entirety. Going off of Carl Sagan's note, let's check out some of the things that have been discovered so far.
A New Home?
Gliese 5A1C has been determined to be a habitable future colonization. It's stuck in a state of tidal locking. Meaning one side of the planet is always facing the star, while the other side is always facing away. This is due to its distance from the sun. The heat from the star side of the planet will instantly incinerate you. While on the opposite side of the planet where there is no sun, you would freeze you instantly. In between is a small segment where life could theoretically exist.
A Tasty Snack?
Can You Get Some More Ice, I'm Burning Up?
A Familiar Face?
A Do Over Device or the Whole Best Trash Compactor?
What Am I Seeing?
Tesla's Dream?
Can We Stop Worrying About Money Now?
“The Diamond Planet” 55 Cancri e, is made out of crystallized Diamond. Worth $26.9 Nonillion dollars. That is $26.9 dollars followed by 30 zeros. One-third of the mass of the planet is believed to be pure diamond, while the rest includes graphite. The planet is two times the size of Earth and has eight times the mass.
Wonder If It's Salty?
Containing 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans and 12 billion light years away is the Universe’s largest water reservoir. It is located near a colossal black hole, 20 billion times the size of the sun, at the center of a quasar. The amount of energy it releases is equivalent to 1,000 trillion of our suns.
No Big Deal?
The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. Meaning it would take 100,000 years for the light to reach from end to end. Now multiply that 40,000 times for the Large Quasar Group (LQG). The LQG is 4 billion light years across. We have no idea how it was formed because it was believed to be theoretically impossible for structures the size of LQG to exist. The group of 74 quasars that form the LQG breaks some of the standard laws of physics, as the maximum size of any cosmic structure should be only 1.2 billion light-years across.
With an estimated 100 billion galaxies in our observable universe it is hard to say that anything isn’t probable in terms of new discoveries. Maybe entering a black hole is the key to unlocking the multiverse or traveling back in time to alter the course of events. At the end of the day I am happy to allow my mind to expand out to the far reaches of this place we call home, and to live in wonder of all it has to offer.
Wonder If It's Salty?
No Big Deal?
Image Sources: First, Second, Third, Forth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh
Excellent, interesting post, nice pictures and sources for the images! Bravo good sir!
Thank you, I look forward to writing many more.
These photos are sweet... And beautiful. I also really loved reading about the raspberry smoke and black holes. Keep it up, looking forward to the rest of the series.
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Always love your posts! :)
That is very kind of you to say! I got some more fun Ideas brewing...
These extrasolar planets are so interesting and we find more all the time!
Yes, they are. I always imagine what it would be like if we tried to colonize a planet with twice the gravity. In most science fiction I have read the gravity is always less, except in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" where the point of reference is the moon. I am sure there would be a lot of stresses on our body as we didn't evolve in those conditions, but if you could survive what would the people look like? Would obesity be cut in half? Would everyone have plantar fasciitis? Would all our imported plants grow short and stubby? How you it affect the way water behaves? Would it be scary to jump off a four-foot ledge? I think it would be a pretty humorous story.